Day 7 of the 12 Days of Cookies – Coconut-Orange Snowballs!

How I got asked to be involved with this incredible group is beyond me but all the thanks goes to Kelly of Sass & Veracity and after last year I sure earned my way in the hard way! There are 10 of us that have decided to do The 12 Days of Cookies – A bon appétit cookie extravaganza. We will be choosing, baking, tasting, blogging and sharing with you a cookie a day for the first 12 days of December. These cookies are coming from bon appetit's Holiday Cookie-a-Day Slideshow.

These are my partners in crime. We will all be choosing different cookies and surprising each other. How fun is that???? Be sure to check out their selections for the day!

So this is the 7th cookie I have made for the 12 days of cookies. Unfortunately this is the 8th day of the project! All I am going to say is better luck next year! There is just no way I cold keep up the pace!

For the 7th cookie I choose to make the Coconut-Orange Snowballs. They looked so elegant on all the plates I had seen. Fortunately the coconut flavor is real mild because I didn’t use the coconut extract in it just the toasted coconut as no one in the house is really a huge fan of coconut.

Would I make these again? Don’t think so. I found them a little dry. That could have been my fault for skipping the 3/4 tsp of coconut extract but I doubt it. They do look pretty though with all the icing sugar on them!!!

13 comments:

In my limited experience, extra butter fixes dry... do you think extra butter would help... i like the sound of these, and my wife LOVES coconut... so this may accompany recipe 2 (the pecan sandwich cookies)...

I am loving this series, and this weekend, at least one of your recipes will be made (maybe 2 if I get the goahead for adding butter!!!

Hey Dave-I would go for it on the extra butter. I am also using a new flour that I bought and am finding that even my bread is a little dryer so it could just be my flour. Try it the way it is and if the dough looks to be real crumbly then add a bit more butter. Butter makes it better right?

I loved these, and just seeing them makes me want one or five ; ) I didn't use the coconut extract, either. They tend to be on the crunchy side even when they're Mexican wedding cookies or Greek cookies. Hang in there Judy. You're definitely ahead of me! I'll keep plugging along 'till the end ; )

I baked them for 15 minutes rather than the full 18, but I think the style of cookie is just on the dry side. You'd be surprised how little the coconut extract presented itself. I was expecting a mouthful of coconut, but it was the orange that came through! Weird, huh?

Don't feel bad, Judy! At this point, my 12 cookies are going to take at least 13 or 14 days, I think. =) Your cookies do look pretty, and I'm impressed that you made them even though coconut isn't popular at your house.